Elise Roy Biography

A Division I athlete in both soccer and lacrosse Elise participated in the Olympic Development Program for soccer. In the classroom she learned how to teach herself from books. At Brown University Elise was recognized as one of the nation’s elite soccer goalkeepers. She also began to see herself as an advocate for people with non-normative abilities. Her freshman year the University tried to take away the real time captioning a cross between closed captions that you see on television and a courtroom stenographer enabling her for the first time to hear and participate in the classroom. After organizing the other deaf students at the University and meeting with several deans Elise was able to secure the real time captioning for the remainder of her time at Brown.
Following Brown Elise turned down an invitation to play professional soccer and instead opted for law school at Northeastern University. While in law school Elise became actively involved in gay and lesbian rights acting as a fellow for the human rights campaign in Washington D.C. Upon graduation Elise received the highly prestigious Georgetown University Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship with alumni and board members that included Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg as well as D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.

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